ArticleThe New phytologist2018
Nutrient-rich plants emit a less intense blend of volatile isoprenoids.
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- Associational resistance through intercropping reduces yield losses to soil-borne pests and diseases.The New phytologist · 2022Pooled it
- Deciphering the Biotic and Climatic Factors That Influence Floral Scents: A Systematic Review of Floral Volatile Emissions.Frontiers in plant science · 2020Pooled it
- Impacts of Mechanical Injury on Volatile Emission Rate and Composition in 45 Subtropical Woody Broad-Leaved Storage and Non-Storage Emitters.Plants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Leaf isoprene and monoterpene emissions vary with fast-slow carbon economics strategies in central Amazon woody species.Frontiers in plant science · 2025Article
- Environmental Factors Affecting Monoterpene Emissions from Terrestrial Vegetation.Plants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Review
- Biosynthesis and the Transcriptional Regulation of Terpenoids in Tea Plants (International journal of molecular sciences · 2023Review
- Ecological strategies of (pl)ants: Towards a world-wide worker economic spectrum for ants.Functional ecology · 2023Article
- Biogeochemical niche conservatism relates to plant species diversification and life form evolution in a subtropical montane evergreen broad-leaved forest.Ecology and evolution · 2022Article
- Influence of increased nutrient availability on biogenic volatile organic compound (BVOC) emissions and leaf anatomy of subarctic dwarf shrubs under climate warming and increased cloudiness.Annals of botany · 2022Article
- Leaf isoprene emission as a trait that mediates the growth-defense tradeoff in the face of climate stress.Oecologia · 2021Article
- Fruit odorants mediate co-specialization in a multispecies plant-animal mutualism.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2021Article
- Do Bryophyte Elemental Concentrations Explain Their Morphological Traits?Plants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2021Article
- Parasite dodder enables transfer of bidirectional systemic nitrogen signals between host plants.Plant physiology · 2021Article
- Plant volatiles as cues and signals in plant communication.Plant, cell & environment · 2021Review
- Convergent Variations in the Leaf Traits of Desert Plants.Plants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2020Article
- Nutrient scarcity as a selective pressure for mast seeding.Nature plants · 2019Article
- Alternative Carbon Sources for Isoprene Emission.Trends in plant science · 2018Review
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The emission of isoprenoids (e.g. isoprene and monoterpenes) by plants plays an important defensive role against biotic and abiotic stresses. Little is known, however, about the functional traits linked to species-specific variability in the types and rates of isoprenoids emitted and about possible co-evolution of functional traits with isoprenoid emission type (isoprene emitter, monoterpene emitter or both). We combined data for isoprene and monoterpene emission rates per unit dry mass with key functional traits (foliar nitrogen (N) and phosphorus (P) concentrations, and leaf mass per area) and climate for 113 plant species, covering the boreal, wet temperate, Mediterranean and tropical biomes. Foliar N was positively correlated with isoprene emission, and foliar P was negatively correlated with both isoprene and monoterpene emission rate. Nonemitting plants generally had the highest nutrient concentrations, and those storing monoterpenes had the lowest concentrations. Our phylogenetic analyses found that the type of isoprenoid emission followed an adaptive, rather than a random model of evolution. Evolution of isoprenoids may be linked to nutrient availability. Foliar N and P are good predictors of the type of isoprenoid emission and the rate at which monoterpenes, and to a lesser extent isoprene, are emitted.
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